Drug Trafficking Challenge
Drug trafficking seem to be the eternal problem that has long ago become a challenge for the entire planet and that will still be the greatest challenge of the police forces in the future. Yet, today the humanity is on the edge of changes. The globalization, in particular, might have huge consequences, both negative and positive, for the resolution of drug problem.
Free trade has, undoubtedly, facilitated drug trafficking having open new ways for trade expansion. The borders barriers in the North America or Europe that have to be removed in the future by the efforts of drug cartels
have been cancelled by the international agreements on free trade zones (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2012). Organized crime flourishes as never before. The globalization had speeded up this process.
However, it should be stressed that the changes and challenges that are presumed to be caused by the globalization have, in fact, been rooted in the national countries. The drugs from the far corners of the world are
distributed all over the world. For example, Colombia offers the best example of how the uncontrolled globalization had turned to be a benefit and curse at the same time. This country stands at the end of the chain of narcotraficking, the multi-stage process that involves the cultivation, trade, distribution, money laundering and corruption. The effects of it are dramatic. In US only drug abuse results in 52,000 deaths annually and $110
billion spent for the healthcare (Jenner, 2011).
At the same time, the tightening of international cooperation in the field of law enforcement might contribute to the eradication of drug trafficking. The establishment of the databases containing the information regarding criminals, common operations aimed at the discovery of drug operations and cartels might reduce the drug trafficking or, at least, enlighten the process of tracing drug operations. Moreover, the governments of the countries can agree on adoption of certain anti-drugs policies that would make the consumption and cycling of drugs more complicated. Together, they can also implement and finance the structural changes in the countries
of drugs origin that would eventually lead to less production of the drugs. All of it, would eventually lead to the combatting of drug trafficking or, at least, its reduction.
References
Jenner, M.S. (2011). International drug trafficking: a global problem with a domestic solution. Retrieved
from http://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=
1465&context=ijgls
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. (2012). Drug trafficking and organized crime: in the Americas. Retrieved
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